Lewis Roberts senior of Schuylkill township

Lewis Roberts and his father, Israel, moved to the Charlestown area in the early 1800s from Richland. They had a common ancestor with the main Roberts family in the Charlestown of Thomas and Alice Roberts who migrated from Wales and settled in Richland in the early 1700s.

Lewis Roberts: b. 1802. Will dated 9/3/1861, proved 10/9/1861, wife Harriet. 1860 census: wheelwright, Lewis Peart and Joseph Valentine were witnesses to will.

1814 Chester County taxes: no Lewis Roberts (Thomas in East Nantmeal)

1820 Chester County taxes: freeman, 3 acres (with Thomas Roberts)

1821 Married Harriet Brooke

1824 Chester County taxes: inmate, 3 acres

1828 Septennial census: wheelwright

1835 Septennial census: wheelwright

4/25/1836 : purchased tract of 8 acres, 23 perches on the Valley Forge - Phoenixville road¹.

1838 Tax Return: 10 acres wheelwright

1850 census: Lewis Roberts (59), Harriet Roberts (48), Ann (25), Charles (21), May J. (18), Lewis E. (15), Joseph J. (12), David B. (10), William R. (7).

1856 Septennial census: wheelwright

1860 census:

9/23/1861 will: witnesses: Lewis Peart, Joseph Valentine (both lived further towards Valley Forge on the Phoenixville road). Wife; Harriet. Children: Clementina Lee, Anna F. Vanderslice, Sarah Emily Fussel, Charles B. Roberts, Mary Roberts, Lewis Ellwood Roberts, Joseph Roberts, David Brooke Roberts, and William Penn Roberts.

1861 Lewis of Schuylkill township died, probate

10/19/1861: Harriet Roberts and Joseph Fussel, executors of the will of Lewis Roberts sold the tract of 8 acres, 23 perches to William Williams².

References

1. Chester County deed C5-473.

2. deed S6-100.